Whereabouts in England do you come from?

[ironman]

Gloucestershire has 25.93% of members votes....looks like Gloucestershire wins hands down The members of the Royal family have all got homes in Gloucestershire so it must be pretty good here!

[Aelred]

My wife wants to move us to Gloucestershire (where? the Cotswolds of course).

[Albion]

There are powerful elements working against England, for sure. From what I've been told, its now easier for Africans, Middle Easterners etc to immigrate to England than it is for Australians (even those with family still in England)... yet we're still part of the Commonwealth of Nations!

Yes, that's quite sad really. There should be looser requirements for Brits, Aussies and Kiwis travelling between each other's countries, I know that already exists with Australia and NZ. It'd probably benefit students going on gap years a lot.

If having family, that belonged to the House of Burgesses, counts?

I know a burgess and they're poor and what you may term a looser. Lots of old nobility in England went broke during the 18th and 19th century, often because they couldn't make their estates pay in the modern world or because many of them were gamblers.

[Bloodeagle]

I know a burgess and they're poor and what you may term a looser. Lots of old nobility in England went broke during the 18th and 19th century, often because they couldn't make their estates pay in the modern world or because many of them were gamblers.

No, I was not referring to the family name of Burgess, but the Virginia Colonies first elected representative assembly. The name literally means the house of freemen or representatives.

The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America. Its first meeting was held in Jamestown, Virginia, on July 30, 1619.[1]
The word "Burgess" originally referred to a freeman of a borough or burgh. It later came to mean an elected or appointed official of a municipality, or the representative of a borough in the English House of Commons.
The Virginia Company ended monopoly on land ownership, believing that the colonists would display greater initiative if they could gain ownership of land. The changes encouraged private investment from the colony's settlers, which allowed them to own land rather than simply being sharecroppers. The company designed four large corporations, termed citties [sic], to encompass the developed portion of the colony. Company officials adopted English Common Law as the basis of their system in the Virginia colony, replacing the governor as the final voice on legal matters.
Similar to the British Parliament, the House of Burgesses would[clarification needed] consist of delegates elected by the colonists, and would[clarification needed] meet once annually at Jamestown (In Bermuda, previously part of Virginia, the House of Assembly was created that same year).
Prompted by the Virginia Company, colonial governor Sir George Yeardley helped facilitate elections of representatives, called "burgesses", to this new legislative body that would[clarification needed] come from eleven boroughs adjacent to the James River, along with eleven additional burgesses.
The House's first session of July 30, 1619, accomplished little. It was cut short by an outbreak of malaria. The assembly had 22 members from the following constituencies:[2]

• The colony's governor, appointed in London,
• The governor's council, a group of six citizens selected by the governor,
• The burgesses from various locales, initially larger plantations; counties were included later.

Men over the age of 17 who owned land were eligible to vote.[2]

[Beorn]

Isn't Bristol in Gloucestershire? That is what the ABC website has it down as.

Bristolians fought and died for our right.

Gloucester is a reservoir for the mentally retarded.

Somerset was the day out for good behaviour.

[Thorum]

The England part of me? Bolton. I am for Lancashire.

"Even on a really fine day Bolton is a gloomy, unattractive hole ... As in all these industrial towns, the older part of Bolton is particularly dilapidated and really unfit for human habitation."
-- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engles

[Osweo]

The England part of me? Bolton. I am for Lancashire.

A cousin of yours;
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[Cato]

Insofar as I've been able to uncover Sussex and Wessex from Engla-land.

[Bridie]

The England part of me? Bolton. I am for Lancashire.

"Even on a really fine day Bolton is a gloomy, unattractive hole ... As in all these industrial towns, the older part of Bolton is particularly dilapidated and really unfit for human habitation."
-- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engles

A cousin of yours;

Hey hey! I'm a cousin too! Or maybe. Any Ainsworths, Gallands, Hargreaves or Bowers in your family tree?

[Burgomaster]

I was born in the Netherlands, but have lived in a town near Norwich, Norfolk (or as an Amercian tourist from Iowa I bumped into last week called it, Norwichshire) since I was just a little over a year old.

The stuff they say we do with sheep IS a lie (perhaps made up by those sneaky Suffolk folk).